From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 10:42:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9191D16A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:42:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBCE43F85 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:44:45 -0600 Message-ID: <3FA2ACE7.7040600@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:41:43 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <3FA29783.8060804@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3FA29783.8060804@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Oct 2003 18:44:45.0625 (UTC) FILETIME=[0DE6AA90:01C39FDF] cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do hackers drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:42:07 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > I recently started reading Eric Raymond's > _The_Art_of_UNIX_Programming_ and > it's gotten me taking another look at the way I am in general. > > Just to make sure I'm not totally insane ... > > When I am about to go somewhere in the car, I take a moment or two to > plan out the optimal route to get to my various destinations. If > there are > multiple destinations, I usually do a little thinking to determine what > order to visit these destinations in order to make optimal use of my > time. > This is usually modified by the desire to choose a route that includes > the > fewest number of left turns possible (since right turns are cheaper than > left turns, time-wise, and complexity-wise - you can make a right turn on > red for crying out loud) > > Other programmers drive this way as well, correct? > I call myself a 'consultant' ... the gist of this: I'll try every route and might get there next Thursday :D Kevin Kinsey